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As the, well, house band for the community theatre show, At the Turning of the Tide, by Crude Apache, the Punch House Band are playing outdoors around the broads, riverways and waterways of Norfolk through July. I am doing some of the shows—great fun! Lovely audiences, terrific songs. And we also get to play a few numbers from the Punch House repertoire before the show starts. Here are some photos from the first shows I’ve one, at the Lion Inn, Thurne on Saturday, and the Whiffler Theatre in the Castle Gardens as part of the Lord Mayor’s Procession weekend events in Norwich in Sunday. I’m doing three more of the shows (weather … phew … permitting) next weekend, in some special locations:

Thursday 12 July, Whitlingham Broad visitors’ centre

Friday 13, Heigham Park, Norwich

Saturday 14, Geldeston Locks Inn.

Al these shows are at 7.30, but do come earlier if you want to hear the band! The show continues for another weekend after that.

I am very pleased to be speaking at this (free) event in Sheffield, the first in a series of research events from Digital Folk – a two-year AHRC-funded research project that examines the ways in which folk arts participants use digital resources.

Marking the mid-way point of this AHRC-funded project, this symposium will explore how digital media and technologies have affected the ways in which people experience and engage with participatory arts.

The symposium is designed to complement ongoing investigations of the folk arts – the central focus of the Digital Folk project – by drawing on the wider context of grass-roots participation across the artistic landscape.

Delegates will be invited to question the ways in which – and the extent to which – the establishment of the digital era has transformed and/or conserved vernacular creative practices across forms such as music, dance and theatre. Here is the programme for the day: